Maureen McGovern has had a career of fits and starts.\u00a0 From nearly immediate success with a number one song in 1973 (“The Morning After,” the theme from The Poseidon Adventure<\/i>, which also won an Oscar and a Grammy nomination), to obscurity, to Broadway and minor fame, she has covered a great deal of ups and downs.\u00a0 After her initial success in the \u201870s flamed out and her Broadway career moved forward, she released Another Woman In Love<\/i> as a new foray into music.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cNew\u201d as in new release.\u00a0 The material itself is mostly pretty old.\u00a0 McGovern covers several songs from the \u201cstandards\u201d era, including songs by Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rogers, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein and others.\u00a0 Three of the songs \u2013 “Rainy Days,” “Another Woman in Love,” and “Something I Thought I’d Never Do” \u2013 are originals written for McGovern.\u00a0 Uniquely for this album, the songs are solely piano and voice, with some wonderful piano accompaniment and arrangement done by Mike Renzi.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
McGovern\u2019s voice covers a wide range of textures.\u00a0 At times she sounds like an operatic soprano; at others, she is a throaty jazz crooner.\u00a0 At other moments she has a more pop overtone, sounding like Karen Carpenter.\u00a0 Through it all her voice is clear and naked, accompanied by Renzi\u2019s lone piano.\u00a0 Yet while the entire offering is beautiful, only a couple of songs stand out enough to be memorable.\u00a0 “I Like You, You’re Nice” and “You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me” achieve that sense.\u00a0 But her cover of Peter Allen\u2019s \u201cI Could Have Been A Sailor\u201d is the main highlight.\u00a0 Its tune has a pop flavor that is missing in the rest of this jazz\/standard album, and its flowing piano arrangement and catchy tune will stay in your head.<\/p>\n
Another Woman In Love <\/i>is one of those albums that I call \u201cSaturday morning coffee music.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a disc that would go great with a cup of joe on a chilly rainy Saturday where some smooth jazzy background music suits the mood perfectly.\u00a0 While it is not memorable, it is enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":31334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9052],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-43031","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-maureen-mcgovern","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43031"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}